According to whoever wrote IMDb's Bruce Springsteen bio, the Springsteen song that shares its name with this film was inspired by the film. Anybody who's seen this notice the connection? "Connections" like this are often listed on IMDb, but are quite a stretch in real life.
shareActually, I came across an article about Springsteen's song in the London Times about a year ago which also said that the song was inspired by this film.
shareBruce told this story in many of his Darkness tour concerts. This particular quote is taken from the legendery Passaic, NJ, concert from 9-19-1978.
"There was this Robert Mitchum movie... it was about these moonshine runners down South... I never saw the movie, I only saw the poster in the lobby in the theatre... I took the title and I wrote this song... I didn't think that there was ever a place that was like what I wrote this song about, I didn't know if there was or not...
We were out in the desert, over in the summertime, driving to Nevada, and we came upon this house on the side of the road that this Indian had built... had a big picture of Geronimo upfront... said 'Landlord' over the top... had this big sign said "This is a land of peace, love, justice and no mercy"... and it pointed down this little dirt road that said 'Thunder Road'"
Yeah, man, thanks.
sharethere's a lot of songs inspired by film titles and movies in general in Springsteen's work which is a natural thing in that sense that he is a very "cinematic" writer. I mean, songs like Thunder Road, Racing ín the Streets and such are like little movies actually. it's one of those special springsteenian qualities i guess. you often visualize his stories as ( not always black and white) movies staring robert mitchum (think of cautious man and the protagonist's tattooes)or james dean or others.
http://avalonmotel.blogg.de/
Sean Penn credits Bruce Springsteen's lyrics for the plot of his great first film as a director, "The Indian Runner".
shareinteresting.
His name...was Julio Iglesias!